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    The Hughes H-4 Hercules (commonly known as the Spruce Goose; registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by...
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    in Glendale, California, as a division of Hughes Tool Company. The company produced the Hughes H-4 Hercules aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried...
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  • US Hercules Inc., a chemical company which merged with and became Ashland, Inc. HMS Hercules, any of several Royal Navy ships Hughes H-4 Hercules, a prototype...
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    leading the United States Senate to investigate the XF-11 and the Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat in 1946–1947. The F-11 was intended to meet the same...
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  • No powerplant types were revealed. The Martin 193 lost out to the Hughes H-4 Hercules, and after the end of World War II obviated the urgency for Sky Freighters...
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    model of the Hughes H-4 Hercules to escape some eager federal agents and Howard Hughes himself. After Secord glides the model to safety, Hughes expresses...
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    Milton Keynes, England GEN H-4, a Japanese helicopter design Hughes H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose), the largest flying boat ever built Héli Sécurité Helicopter...
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    aviation museum in McMinnville, Oregon. Its exhibits include the Hughes H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose) and more than fifty military and civilian aircraft...
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    multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer (1935) and the gigantic H-4 Hercules (the Spruce Goose, 1947), the largest flying boat...
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    the largest manufactured with the process being the Hughes H-4 Hercules designed by Howard Hughes and Glenn Odekirk, which was built almost completely...
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    aircraft that was built using the Duramold process, later used on the Hughes H-4 Hercules. The Model 46 is a low-wing, cabin aircraft, with conventional landing...
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    longest wingspan ever flown, at 385 feet (117 m), surpassing the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" flying boat of 321 feet (98 m). The Stratolaunch is...
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    was the headquarters of Hughes Aircraft Company from 1941 to 1985 and the site of the construction of the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" aircraft...
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    West Coast.": 103, 245  The "Spruce Goose", officially known as the Hughes H-4 Hercules, was built here and moved in sections to the Port of Long Beach where...
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    appearance has drawn comparisons to the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and the Hughes H-4 Hercules ("Spruce Goose"). Due to its ungainly form—exacerbated in that the...
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    Pynoos, a civil engineer by training, for his work on Howard Hughes' Hughes H-4 Hercules (known as the Spruce Goose). The wooden fuselage was nailed together...
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    like the de Havilland Comet and Boeing 707 proved impossible. The Hughes H-4 Hercules, in development in the U.S. during the war, was even larger than...
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    to operate from bases with no prepared landing strip. The giant Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat was constructed from timber, earning it the name the...
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  • Glenn Odekirk (category Articles with hCards)
    so-and-so did." In the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator, Odekirk was portrayed by Matt Ross. The Hughes H-4 Hercules or "Spruce Goose" is now on display...
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    Amendment of Implementing Rule 2042/2003, Version 1 (PDF). 13 January 2012. p. 4. Retrieved 20 May 2014. Gunston, Bill, 1991. Giants of the Sky: The Largest...
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    longest wingspan ever flown, at 385 feet (117 m), surpassing the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" flying boat of 321 feet (98 m). The dual fuselage...
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    built, although it was exceeded in span and weight by the one-off Hughes H-4 Hercules. It has the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft. The B-36 was...
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  • Consolidated B-24 – World War II American heavy bomber. November 2, 1947 – Hughes H-4 Hercules – only flight of this oversized flying boat whose common name is...
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  • Melvin Dummar (category Articles with hCards)
    called Hughes' famous flying boat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the "spruce goose" — a derisive nickname that Hughes had always despised. Most oddly, the will...
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  • interior sets were built inside the dome-shaped hangar that once housed Hughes H-4 Hercules, near the permanently docked RMS Queen Mary steamship, in Long Beach...
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  • BV 222 Wiking. It was bigger even than the BV 238, and only the Hughes H-4 Hercules has ever been bigger. Its hull accommodated three deck levels, providing...
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  • and 1940s, may also have influenced the design of Howard Hughes' huge 1947 Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose", but this has not been confirmed. Bohn Aluminum...
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    Blohm & Voss P 200 Kawanishi H8K Martin JRM Mars Short Shetland Hughes H-4 Hercules Related lists List of World War II military aircraft of Germany List...
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  • Hughes H-4 Hercules Ilyushin Il-62 Kawasaki Ki-56 Lockheed Hudson Lockheed Constellation Lockheed L-188 Electra Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Martin 4-0-4 McDonnell...
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  • wingspan of its time, nine feet short of the 320 foot span of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, although the Scaled Composites Stratolaunch is now the biggest plane...
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